Improvement in steam-cookers



I O are provided with suitable bails is placed in the bottom vessel A, from which UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY D. DANN7 or oSHKosH, WIScoNSrN, AS'SIGNOE To HIMSELE AND CHARLES c. DAIGE, ony SAME rLAcE.'

IMPROVEMENT-IN STEAM-COOKERS.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent N0. 180,009, dated July 18, 1876; application filed ,April 1',

To all w/wm 'it muy concern:

Be itv known that I, HENRY D. DANN, ot' Oshkosh, in the county of Winnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Cookers 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which fornrpart of this specification.

The nature ot' my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of steamcooker, as will be hereinafter more fully lset forth.

In the annexed drawings the figure represents a vertical section of my invention.

My steamcookcr consists of a series of vessels placed one on top ofthe other. A is the bottom vessel, having its bottom projecting all around,and formingasitwere,apan,B,around the same. 1n the upper edge ofthe vessel A are a number of openings, au, and below the same, around the outside of the vessel,`is an inclined, rim,-b, as shown. The upper vessels C C are all alike, and formed with outward flanges d, and downward anges d' to rest upon, and lit within, the vessel immediately below each one. These vessels are also provided at their upper edges with openings a. Over the Whole is placed a case or cylinder, D, resting .on the pan B. All the vessels A Water steam pours out through theopenings etherein, the rim or iiange b around said vessel proventing the water from boiling over, and also catches the condensed steam that might run down the sides ofthe upper sections. rlhe steam from the bottom vesselA passes through the openings a at the top of each vessel C, immediately under the bottom of' the vessel just above it, the case l) keeping the-steam in, and also keeping' the cold air from cooling the vessels, while the steam envelops both the inside and outside oi' lall the vessels. As the steam condenses and passes down within the case to the pan B, it is at once converted into steam again.

Having thus fullyvdeseribed my invention,

what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination ot' the vessel A, having a pan, B, at its bottom, which surrouiids the walls of the vessel, and provided with openings a and ange b with the vessels C C, and the'removable cylinder D, open at its bottom, and restingon the pan B, all substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY D. DANN.

Witnesses:

D. J. PARKINSON, L. E. POND. 

